When they say the sky’s the limit to me that’s really true

Honesty is the first chapter of the book wisdom.

A lot of people will ignore positive words when they are down and accept negative words. Those people never get better.

Being smart takes patience. Being wise takes pain. Being apathetic takes practice. Being in love takes everything…away.

Only a female could be as calculating and have the foresight that destiny requires,’ the gypsy explained. ‘Now fate is a man,’ he went on, ‘no planning, just go with the flow and see what tomorrow brings.

History is the guess of old men, sometimes they get it wrong.

Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old

Cut the cords of attachment. Expand the circle of love.

The most important thing is this: to sacrifice what you are now for what you can become tomorrow.

Speak less, listen deeply.

Life’s tough. It’s a challenge. So think of love as your hard earned reward. Don’t let doubt take that away from you.

Sometimes you weren’t supposed to share pain. Sometimes it was best just to deal with it alone.

No people who are ignorant can be truly free.

You must learn to control your dreams or your dreams will forever control you.

I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.

Seek happiness now within you. Don’t look anywhere else or for anyone to help bring that happiness to your life. Happiness comes as a reward of battles we win. Happiness will come from the will to be strong minded and the readiness to face the next challenge with a smile.

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” (Edmund Burke)

The choices she’s made have left her without choice.

Even fools say something worthwhile now and again. Even a blind pig finds an acorn sometimes.

To master life, control the mind. To control the mind, guard your speech.

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

Whole life is a search for beauty. But, when the beauty is found inside, the search ends and a beautiful journey begins.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife:Come, hear the woodland linnet,How sweet his music! on my life,There’s more of wisdom in it.

And, as always happens, and happens far too soon, the strange and wonderful becomes a memory and a memory becomes a dream. Tomorrow it’s gone.

Everything worth knowing about the 1980s I learned from obsessively reading Bloom County collections when I was nine and Derek Jarman’s diaries when I was twenty.

You can never know everything, and part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps even the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of courage lies in going on anyway.

She’s a sailboat and I’m an anchor, pulling us both down.

As long as you know who you are, and see what makes you happy, it doesn’t matte how others see you

Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off!

Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise?Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means.And I don’t mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost...

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile;Filths savour but themselves…

You can find anyone that will tell you what you want to hear, but the only one worth valuing is the one that tells you what you need to learn.

Wisdom is nothing more than the marriage of intelligence and compassion.And, as with all good unions, it takes much experience and time to reach its widest potential.Have you introduced your intellect to your compassion yet? Be careful; lately, intellect has taken to eating in front of the TV and compassion has taken in too many...

The modern ignorance is in people’s assumption that they can outsmart their own nature. It is in the arrogance that will believe nothing that cannot be proved, and respect nothing it cannot understand, and value nothing it cannot sell . . . The next hard time is just as real to him as the last,...

One true king knew when to step aside and give up the reins of power—to remove his crown and relinquish his kingdom—all for the sake of glimpsing, just once in a lifetime, the face of a holy child.He was the Fourth to follow the Star.His gift was a secret.The rest of his journey is unknown.

Life is as tedious as a twice-told tale.

It doesn’t matter who said it, as long as it changed you.

No mortal man has ever served at the same time his passions and his best interests.

Don’t hide what you have just because people tell you it’s not normal. I have known normal people…and guess what? They are as boring as hell…

Sometimes I’m tired simply means I need something new.

Wisdom most of the time takes form of advice.

The only way to move from your reality to God’s reality is through people who love you.

The universe conspires to steer one in the direction where one can flourish. Bad or good the experience will be a lesson and a lesson learned is fortune measured by wisdom gained.

Set forth no limits, keep in mind that your potential is boundless.

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

It’s not the destination (of seeking the truth) that creates our dignity or integrity, it’s the journey. From Messages From a Grandfather, by Robert Gately

it is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering

Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God.